“Remember, democracy never lasts long,” he wrote to John Taylor, a former U.S. senator from Virginia, in 1814. “It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (1797-1801) and 1st Vice President
Trump’s First 100 Days…
I remember being told in the late 1960s that the US Constitution would one day “hang by a thread.” It was nearly impossible for me to appreciate that at the time. Now I do.